(E)
"Freight forwarder" means a person who, for
compensation, arranges for or offers to arrange for the transportation of
property belonging to others, utilizing motor carriers to provide the actual
transportation, and in the ordinary course of its business:

(1)
Assembles and
consolidates, or provides for assembling and consolidating, shipments and
performs or provides for break-bulk and distribution operations of the
shipments; and

(2)
Assumes responsibility for the transportation from the
place of receipt to the place of destination.

(F)
"Interstate
commerce" has the same meaning as in section
4921.01 of the Revised
Code.

(G)
"Leasing company" means a person engaged in the
business of leasing or renting, for compensation, motor vehicles without
drivers to a motor carrier, motor private carrier, or freight
forwarder.

(H)
"Motor carrier" means a person engaged in the business
of transporting persons or property by motor vehicle for compensation, in
interstate commerce.

(I)
"Motor private carrier" means a person who is not a
motor carrier but is engaged in the transportation of property by motor vehicle
in interstate commerce in order to support its primary line of
business.

(J)
"Motor vehicle" means a vehicle that is self-propelled
by mechanical power and used upon the highways in the transportation of persons
or property, or any combination thereof, but does not include any vehicle,
locomotive, or car operated exclusively on a rail or rails, or a trolley bus
operated by electric power derived from a fixed overhead wire, furnishing local
passenger transportation similar to street-railway service.

(K)
"Participating
state" means a state that participates in the unified carrier registration
plan.

(L)
"Principal place of business" means a single location
that serves as a registrant's headquarters, and where the registrant maintains
or can make available its operational records.

(M)
"Registrant"
means a motor carrier, motor private carrier, broker, leasing company, or
freight forwarder that has selected Ohio has its base state and has registered
with the commission pursuant to the unified carrier registration
agreement.

(O)
"Renewal period" means, with respect to a registration
year, the period of October first through December thirty-first of the
immediately preceding year, or as determined by the unified carrier
registration board.

(P)
"Staff" means employees of the transportation
department of the commission.

(S)
"Unified carrier registration board" means the board
of directors appointed by the United States secretary of transportation
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 14504a, as effective on the date referenced in paragraph
(C) of rule
4901:2-15-02 of the
Administrative Code.

(T)
"Unified carrier registration fees" means the fees
determined by the United States secretary of transportation based upon
recommendation by the unified carrier registration board.

(B)
The commission may, upon an application or a motion
filed by a party, waive any requirement of this chapter, other than a
requirement mandated by statute, for good cause shown.

(C)
Each citation
contained within this chapter that is made to a section of the United States
code or to a regulation in the code of federal regulations is intended, and
shall serve, to incorporate by reference the particular version of the cited
matter that was effective on February 13, 2015.

(A)
All motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers,
freight forwarders and leasing companies that operate in interstate commerce
within the borders of Ohio shall register as required by the unified carrier
registration agreement.

(B)
All motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers,
freight forwarders and leasing companies shall select their base state in
accordance with the provisions of the unified carrier registration agreement
then in effect.

(C)
Motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers,
freight forwarders and leasing companies selecting Ohio as their base state
shall annually submit to the commission a complete and accurate unified carrier
registration application form. The staff will maintain, and post on the
commission's website, the most recent version of the application to provide to
applicants. Such application shall be submitted within the renewal period of
the year preceding the registration year. An applicant that intends to commence
operating during a registration year may register at any time, but it must do
so before it commences operating. At the time that an applicant submits its
unified carrier registration application form, it shall also pay to the
commission the applicable unified carrier registration fees. Upon request of an
applicant, the staff will issue a receipt reflecting that the applicant has
filed the required unified carrier registration application form and paid the
applicable unified carrier registration fees.

(D)
An applicant
that completes its unified carrier registration requirements though a national
or regional electronic system shall be deemed to be in compliance with the
provisions of this rule.

(E)
Registrants are required to preserve the records upon
which their annual unified carrier registration applications are based for
three years from the due date or filing date, whichever is later, plus any time
period included as a result of commission decisions or inquiries. Such records
shall be made available for inspection by the staff upon
demand.

(F)
Motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers,
freight forwarders and leasing companies that are required to select a
participating state, other than Ohio, as their base state, must comply with
that state's unified carrier registration requirements before operating within
the borders of Ohio.

(A)
If a registrant
changes its name, business address, or principal place of business, the
registrant shall notify the staff, in writing, within ninety days after the
date of such change.

(B)
Upon a registrant's change of ownership that requires
a new United States department of transportation number to be issued, the
registrant shall notify the staff of such change. The new entity will be
considered to be a new operation and it shall comply with the requirements of
this chapter.